Incorporating ancillary data into the inversion of airborne time-domain electromagnetic data for hydrogeological applications

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 104, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-43

  Sapia, Vincenzo ^a   Oldenborger, Greg A ^b   Viezzoli, Andrea ^c   Marchetti, Marco ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c Aarhus Geophysics Aps   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Airborne electromagnetics; Data integration; Hydrogeophysics; Time domain electromagnetics

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CALIBRATION; DATA INTEGRATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SURVEYS; WELL LOGGING;

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HYDROGEOPHYSICS; LEVEL OF CONSISTENCIES; TIME DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETICS; TIME-DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

AQUIFER; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

EID: 84895737365     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.02.009     Document Type: Article

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